Two Men Arrested In Car Hijacking

January 30, 1992|The Morning Call

Two men wanted for stealing a car from a Nazareth woman at knifepoint in Williams Township early Friday were arrested Monday night in Phillipsburg.

State police at Belfast said Barry Allen Wolbert, 19, of the Hotel Hampton, Easton, and Theodore F. Lacour, 27, whose last known address was in the 100 block of S. Main Street, Nazareth, are both charged with robbery, theft by unlawful taking or disposition, receiving stolen property, conspiracy and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.

Both men were lodged in the Warren County Prison without bail as fugitives from justice. Phillipsburg Police Chief James Macaulay said Lacour is also wanted by town police on burglary and theft charges.

Police said the men got into a Nazareth woman's car near Centre Square in Easton and told her to drive to Williams Township, where they stole the vehicle at knifepoint. The victim was identified by police as Rebecca Lynn Jurinko, 20, of Siegfried Avenue.

Police said Jurinko had stopped for a red light at Northampton Street and Centre Square when the two suspects entered her car and told her to drive to Industrial Drive near the Chrin Landfill.

Easton detective Lt. William Howey said Jurinko told police she originally waved to the men because she thought she knew them. But once they were in the car, she discovered she was mistaken, he said.

Howey said last week he didn't think the case was related to an abduction of a New Jersey woman from Centre Square in early December. The woman was forced into the car of a man who took her to an undetermined location in the city and raped her.